Recognized by its more common name "tea tree", melaleuca has been revered for its cleansing and regenerative properties, especially for the skin. Composed of more than ninety different compounds, melaleuca has limitless therapeutic applications. Melaleuca essential oil has over 92 different compounds, making it one of the most useful oils you can have in your home. It has been researched for over twenty years in Australia making it one of my most used oils in our home.

Having all of the allergies I do, melaleuca is one of my most used essential oils. It supports me whenever my sinuses are acting up, which happens a lot in the Seattle Washington area. It Protects against environmental and seasonal threats and Promotes healthy immune function. I like to use one to two drops to water, citrus drinks, or veggie caps... or even a drop at the base of the nose.

Just yesterday I was driving back from my daughter's classes and grabbed it out of my purse to rub around my ear. My ear was throbbing (first earache in a long time) because the storms were rolling in, and within minutes I felt much better. We have had a record year for rain in the Pacific Northwest, and I am really ready for some sunshine although that will be hay fever season. So this is nature's toolbox to help me live a more balanced life, and I appreciate what essential oils do for me. Lots of times when I feel like a storm is rolling in I apply a little to my feet before bed, and that does WONDERS! I love melaleuca!!

Welcome to the Barbara Christensen Vlogcast. I am so thrilled to be back and talking to you after taking a little bit of a break to define where I wanted this podcast to go and how I wanted to share my passion. I realized that there were so many well running holistic podcasts out there that were really aligned to what I was delivering, but not a lot in the energy and natural arts sector where I am really engaged. Knowing how you feel, and knowing how to clarify that is a revolution and hopefully you will agree.

If food is thy medicine, then energy is our heartbeat. I love that {hip poc ratees} Hippocrates really moved us with both of those ideas. First he said, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” and secondly he said, “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” This is that opportunity. As I have said before just like that tangible paper, spiritual or abundant, or say manifested energy is no less real than any other energy, like electricity for example, but is vastly more important. Energy is defined as the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity. Spiritual energy is what we call prana and also known as “universal life force” or {cee} “qi” and is carried by pure love. Our bodies were built with that universal template of giving and receiving. As a machine of cells that is really all that we are doing. Giving and receiving throughout the day. In fact when you hug someone it’s not just that hormonal joy that you receive, but it’s a microbiome based exchange that takes place as our microbiome are not just confined to our inner cells. The are permeating throughout our bodies and if magnified via a very powerful microscope you would see that it surrounds you, as does your energy, like the dust storm that surrounds PigPen the Peanuts character.

So this the circulating life force is qi and it emits vibrant, bright colors that we call our aura, as well as a vibrational frequency, and a sound. When it becomes disturbed, stagnant, imbalanced or depleted, that’s when we start to feel it physically and our aura becomes darker and discolored, personal frequency vibrates incorrectly. That also is when we feel those meridians or energy pathways and chakras (energy centers) feel stuck and blocked up. Energy stops flowing.

Traditional Chinese Medicine used this system of energy through acupressure points. The meridians are pathways that connect the acupressure points to each other as well as to the internal organs. Think about how your veins carry the blood supply through your body. The meridians carry the energy through your body. Our chakras carry Universal Life Energy in and out of our physical and spiritual selves. It’s that link to something infinite. Your chakras do parallel the Meridian paths in your body.

How many of us have struggled with this feeling of being unwell and yet you just can’t connect the dots. I think we all have been there, especially those of us that have fixed one aliment only to find another. I have to say that in my life there was a time where I never could have imagined that I had the power to prevent a lot of my struggles just by being aligned, just by allowing that energy to flow.

If you have listened to me before you know that we are receptors of the energy of the universe. It starts in the universe, and it connects to our systems. We all have a common understanding now of the connection between the gut and the brain but we don’t get that the give and receive goes beyond our physical systems. We receive energy, the energy must go somewhere in order to complete the circuit. Today my daughter’s science class went throughout the school testing different items to figure out what they could use to complete a circuit. Would a wooden block work, or a stainless steel strainer. How do we complete this circuit? You won’t complete the circuit if there is no creation happening, and creation doesn’t just mean making something from scratch. Sometimes it means remaking something or releasing something that isn’t yours to begin with. Once that energy goes back into the collective unconscious, the cycle repeats indefinitely because each action requires reaction over and over again. You release something that’s not yours, you open up the space to bring in the energy you need. There’s that infinite ability here to be both receiving and giving while healing your body and soul. We are receiving information – energy – in a non-linear way. Downloads of energy that open us to feelings or inner sight, inspiring us to creative expression. Gut to brain, energy and life. Live whole and you will find all of these informational pods that are just for you!

So what is your chakras? How do we align them? Thousands of years ago there were no research corporations, and so how did we fix things. If we look back we find that there was an understanding of the body being connected to something more. In ancient Egypt they used nature, in the form of essential oils and herbs to heal the body-energy connections. Simplified your chakras are energy organs. You have to care for them as you would an arm or your heart. The meridians start deep within our organs, and connect to the energy centers which are these tornados of energy. If you look a cell is has a fully functional system in it. It talks to other cells using energy. Sparks of life. This signaling from cell to cell requires first the right nutrition to get that proper frequency. What happens in the best case is glycoproteins are completely formed. We have no missing nutrients and our cells spark the information of life to each other with complete joy in their work. Without the proper nutrition they are like foreign diplomats and there is little communication, lots of misunderstandings and we lose energy, start aging, get sick and start sending the wrong messages.

This is highly connected to the meridians. This isn’t just granola science. Not that long ago scientists at Seoul National University confirmed the existence of meridians. They call them the the “primo-vascular system” which they say is a crucial part of the cardiovascular system. Researchers now believe this system is in fact the physical component of the system involved in channelling the flow of energy and information relayed by biophotons (electromagnetic waves of light) and DNA. They were able to prove this by injecting dye into acupuncture points using contrast CT imaging with radiation they were able to see thin lines. These did not show up at non-acupuncture point sites where there are no meridians.

As well clinical studies of thousands in both Russian and Louisville have clinically proven the existence of chakras. In the one they used a small electrical current that is connected to the fingertips, pulsed through the body. What happened was our bodies naturally respond with a kind of ‘electron cloud’ made up of light photons. This glow was captured with an optical CCD camera system and then translated onto a computer. Each sect of the fingertip represented different organs and systems in the body. The computer program projected the figure of a body and placed a type of auric cloud around it that corresponded with each chakra. At Harvard Medical school they found that when an acupuncture point is stimulated it sends a signal to a corresponding part of the brain that then has a reaction and that “preliminary results (based upon functional MRI readings) suggest that the acupuncture needle manipulation modulates the activity of the limbic system and subcortical structures. What else do we know that connects with the limbic system? Essential oils?

Held in your chakras is your history, the obstacles to your growth, your vulnerabilities to illnesses and your soul’s longing.

– Donna Eden, Energy Medicine

We quite literally depend for survival on our mammalian “limbic brain,” although the “lizard brain” is the get thing done sort of guy. So that’s the First and Second Chakras doing things based on emotion, and the Third and Fourth where the emotions live. As we develop and repattern our minds our souls are healthier and feel well and open up new ways of thinking in the Fifth and Sixth Chakras. But we have to first release the underlying memories … be the ones from traumas or the ones we’ve carried from generations or even prior lives. The drivers are those third and fourth chakras. In truth they’ve determined there are 145 chakras, so we’d spend a lot of time if we tried to focus in on all of them. The top seven chakras connect to seven endocrine glands and we can then connect those to meridians and that to organs throughout our body. And we start with the oils and then work out way out into more defined self work most of the time.

As a Reiki Master I focus in on first allowing energy into the body to do it’s good will. Grounding and aligning the chakras

So what are the basic chakras {missing}

When we inhale a fragrance, the odor molecules travel up the nose where they are trapped by our olfactory membranes, that lining inside the nose. You inhale and it will float to the back of the nasal cavity. Each odor molecule fits like a little puzzle piece into specific receptor cells lining a membrane known as the olfactory epithelium or olfactory membrane. This olfactory membrane is a layer of cells on the roof of the nasal cavity. Olfactory receptor cells are the only neurons in the nervous system that are regularly replaced, lasting about about 4 to 8 weeks. This olfactory membrane is three layers of cells: the supporting cells, the olfactory receptor cells, and the basal cells. The supporting cells function as metabolic and physical support for the olfactory cells, which are actually neurons. The basal cells are stem cells and are the source for new receptors capable of division. These Basal cells can differentiate into either supporting or olfactory cells. However those neurons called the Brush cells are what respond to odors with an electrical impulse directed to the olfactory bulb.

Your olfactory bulb has sensory receptors that are actually part of the brain which send messages directly to that lizard brain, our most primitive brain centers where it influences emotions and memories, as well as where the “Higher” centers modify our conscious thought.

This amazing brain center perceives odors and then accesses your memories to remind us about people, places, or events associated with these olfactory sensations. This is the most powerful of our five senses and 10,000 times more sensitive than any other of the senses you have. It's an immediate reaction.

Because of the immediate connection we have to odors within our limbic system, it's easy to see that aromatherapy can impact memory and mood as well as behavior. The structures of the limbic system are responsible for the release of different neurotransmitters like endorphins, and to promote the production and release of various neurotransmitters which impact the nervous system. Research has been done using learned odors. In mice under anesthesia and in conscious sheep they have been able to see an increase in release of both glutamate and GABA in the olfactory bulb in response to these learned odors. Glutamate and GABA are the brain's most plentiful neurotransmitters. Over half of all of your brain synapses use glutamate, and 30-40% use GABA. And these two neurotransmitters have a complex and interconnected relationship and they have such a huge impact on so many different areas of our mental , physical and spiritual wellness. Glutamate is that excited neuron. Where GABA is that relaxing neuron. Your GI tract is packed with GABA receptors, and supports the healthy levels of antibodies that protect our gut and mucous linings from harm. This is a huge part of your immune system which brings us right back to the gut brain connection. It makes you get a sense of what role energy work, whole nutrition and essential oils can have on our overall well and why I want to delve deeper into this area with you.

Know that you are always receiving energy… it’s what we were made for. It is just how we function at the soulcentric machine level. Figuring out what you’ll do with your energy and how you’ll clear out the negative energy is what the journey is. It’s not all about the zeny zen. It’s about that inner connection to opening up the reception for what you are about to receive and living your healthiest life. Every week I am going to hopefully bring you some information about many things that impact all of these areas including biofilms, relationships, plants, animals, different varieties of energy work and functional exercises as well as aromatherapy. Head over to www.LifeEssentially.com to grab the free Essential Oils For Emotional Balance for a limited time. It’s some ideas for beginners to help you start incorporating oils into life and start using the power of nature right now.

I have talked a lot about epigenetics and there is a fantastic book that I will put into the show notes called, ‘When All Else Fails’.

And this is so important with the new discoveries in epigenetics about passing on our emotional stuff to our children. What are your children really inheriting? What haven’t you dealt with yet that you need to address. These are some very important ideas that we need to delve into, don’t you think?

Over the next few weeks I will be talking to some amazing people. Energy worker, Andrea Lynn who not only walked away from the only life she had ever known by listening to her intuitive self, but found out that Motherhood is Heart, Soul, Muscle and Mind! I will also be talking to Wellness Coach, June from Lively Siren Coaching about her journey through the gluten fields. As well as talking to many others. You can find me, the creator of the Paleo Vegeo lifestyle at www.PaleoVegeo.com or on Facebook at PaleoVegeo. Or for essential oils and more of the alternative information look for me at the new www.LifeEssentially.com website and the Facebook page is LifeEssentiallyHealthyLiving. I am always on Instagram @bijagirl and would love to connect. Until next time, be well, find alignment and inhale the joys of life. This is Barbara Christensen and I say, Peace Out. <3

Emotions of blame are very likely to encompass several other emotions including guilt, shame, fear and anger. I talked about fear the other day in my group and using Cedarwood to help clear the negative self-talk. Fear often is associated with abandonment or being socially pushed out, but also with being accused of something, or receiving punishment.

However shame and guilt are the ones usually deep rooted in emotions associated with blame. The individual feels responsible for what they've been through, they feel like they committed the act even if it was committed against them. They also feel bad about what they've done even if they had no control over the situation. Almost always perpetrator has made them feel ashamed.

Anxiety connected to an inner reaction to those emotions can cause us to hold on deeply to that which we don't need. Our response to the emotion can happen so quickly that it feels like a physical reaction. Are you hanging onto things you don't need to? Are you refusing to release this?

Use this oil and then tell yourself that you release the energy of the past, that you know the truth, that you are well and protected. Let yourself trust again.

Cypress essential oil is the oil to choose that heals emotional “wounds” and release those emotional bonds that no longer serve you. It creates an emotional flow and can help you reconnect with the feeling of trust. Not only will it raise your overall frequency when you use Cypress, but it also connected directly with the frequency you need to connect with and clear in the Sacral and Root Chakras. Fantastic oil to use on these areas. Cypress has a grounding, yet stimulating effect on the emotions and gives us energy while reducing those anxious feelings. It has cleansing and calming effects and works well with Lime if you are working on childhood emotions. How have you used Cypress in the past? Does it suddenly connect to more for you?

Marjoram essential oil is valued for its calming properties and positive effect on the nervous system and has become a favorite oil in our house. I love this oil because it can not only help calm the crazy beasts, but after two hours of homeschool skating it can also help soothe my tired, stressed muscles and supports my healthy system. Marjoram is definitely an oil that you will gravitate towards for relaxation once you have used it a few times. It is a go to oil for me and for my husband, the machine. LOL. He's got pins in one shoulder and an entire set of metal in his one leg. He's been pinned together, but still keeps on going lifting those heavy weights every morning. Here is my favorite spray blend recipe that I use with my husband's sore muscles or to relax when he's working on a project over the weekend. It's great to apply on the back of the neck to help bring up some more relaxed emotions, clearing out some of the Chakra blockages.

Most people I know associate marjoram with spicy foods, but with sweet pine and citrus flavors as well it pairs well with any cooking where you would use oregano and offers many additional internal and external benefits. It's herbaceous flavor can be used to spice up a hearty chili, fresh salad dressing, roasted vegetable soups, and the essential oil can take the place of dried marjoram when cooking but of course starting with one drop and then tasting. I also like to add it at the end of before serving. Generally, one drop of Marjoram essential oil is equivalent to two tablespoons of dried Marjoram.

Beyond its culinary benefits, Marjoram can be taken internally to help support a healthy cardiovascular and immune system. We use it mostly added to a carrier oil topically or add it to the diffuser at night for its calming properties. It's smell invokes warmth and that feeling of being out in nature and helps promote a calming atmosphere. It's an essential oil for any sort of peaceful blend. I love that this one oil can help with those comfort and security emotional imbalances. There are so many ways that you can balance your emotions using essential oils. It's a deeply healing oil for relationships, and optimizes connections to universal energy and opening up to the greater consciousness hitting many different Chakra zones from the Root Chakra to the Crown Chakra. As an energy healer, or as the heart of your household, this is one oil you should always have in your natural arsenal.

I don't recommend using this essential oil during pregnancy or while trying to conceive even though NAHA states in their pregnancy guidelines that it is safe for the entire pregnancy.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Essential oils are a part of my natural plant infused paleo style of living and they have been used for
many years, both for emotional and physical health. You can use essential oils
aromatically, topically and some people add essential oils to food and drinks. I am drinking some turmeric water with lemon essential oil right now.

There are many types of oils to use
as a carrier oil such as olive oil, coconut oil, sunflower oil, almond oil,
avocado oil, or sesame oil. My preference is either EVOO or coconut oil. Although if I were a massage therapist or PT I would probably want a grape seed or jojoba. People use essential oils due to its inhibitor,
antimicrobial and medicated properties. Its use is spreading day by day as it
has no side effects and can be considered as a natural solution for physical
issues. And yet some of us are non-believers.

That was me when I was first introduced to oils years ago. I remember my neighbor had a party to introduce her tribe to this new found magic in her life. I personally remembering that is was a room full of too many people and too many smells. Home I went. Yet when my daughter was struggling with asthma and her inhaler was doing enough but not enough, I turned to oils to see if they would help. That was the catalyst that eventually took me to getting the education and becoming a Certified Aromatherapist.

There are three ways to use
essential oils: diffuse the oil, apply the oil to your body and ingest the oil.
You can put a few drops on your feet or shake a few drops on the carpet to make
your room smell great. Before using any oil make sure it is diluted with water
as all oils are powerful and concentrated if you consider that it takes approximately 3000 organic roses to make just 0.09 fl oz of amazing Rose Otto essential oil. So with the exception of our tough feet, I never recommend that you apply an essential oil directly to your body.

Lavender has soothing and relaxing
features. It is mostly used by people and is easily available anywhere in the
market. It can be used as a scent to refresh the mind, to relieve stress and
tension. By adding 2-3 drops on an insect bite as Lavender helps skin issues.
Add 2-3 drops of essential oil to your hands, rub it in your palms and inhale
deeply. I call this the human diffuser.
Drop a few drops on your bed pillows before going to sleep which tends
you to sleep faster and live in peace.

2.
Lemon:

Lemon oil added in water can be used
as a substitute for fresh lime. Although I actually cold press lemons and limes in my morning juice, I love a little drop of lemon in my water during the day. You can spray some lemon eo in the room to keep your mind,
mood cheerful and fresh. Citrus oils are amazing for working through childhood emotions. It also plays a vital role in cleaning household
things. It removes the smell from dirty clothes while washing. Its odor
prevents bad smell in toilets, dustbins, trash cans so can be termed as a good
air freshener.

3.
Peppermint:

It is the most flexible oil used all
over the world. It is a food energizer; you can use it in tea, or a
smoothie. I carry it in little beadlets when I travel because I suffered with terrible IBS when I was younger and if it flares up on the road, it's my support tool. It also supports the body, and
many use it when they feel tired. You will feel happy when you breathe in its
bottle.

4.
Sandalwood:

It is one of the expensive oils, but
its use is worth it. It possesses long lasting property. It cools down your
mind after inhaling it or applying it on your neck. It also strengthens your body,
keeps yourself active and increases your willpower. Taking a bath with
essential oils has emotional and physical benefits. Massage oil throughout your
body either at home or salon to be relaxed and relieve yourself from stress and
tension. It also increases your microcirculation. For my husband's knee pain when we travel I have a wonderful mixture with sandalwood, cedarwood, frankincense and wintergreen. You can use sandalwood as a
home-based conditioner, although an expensive one.

5. Melaleuca / Tea Tree:

Melaleuca has a nice fragrance which
provides cleaning solutions in the home. If you check out PubMed it has to be one of the most researched oils clinically... especially in Australia. It cleans our home appliances and my juicer thanks me. Melaleuca Oil (sometimes known as MQV as well) has been known to help skin conditions. It kills harmful bacteria. It
is also used to reduce body odor. Add a drop to your natural aluminum-free deodorant.

No matter how you use oils, take the leap and use them. They will become part of the path you've already started on. Plants are amazing. The power they offer is so beneficial.

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Self Acceptance Support Oil

Bergamot essential oil is all about self love, self acceptance and self approval. Carry it with you and use in conjunction with positive affirmations every time a self-critical thought arises throughout the day. You want to apply it over your solar plexus each morning when you first step out of the shower. This allows for dilution as well as for the critical support you crave. The area known as the solar plexus is a central chakra, and is so intertwined with everything throughout your emotional being because of its radiating nerve fibers. It stems from the abdomen located halfway between the belly button and into the chest.

Bergamot is the oil that will help you release the negative patterns you keep tracing over. Those patterns of self deprecation and self hatred. It pushes your low self-esteem out the door and brings in authenticity and life choices that are aligned to you, not following what others desire. I like to combine this with EFT tapping practices in coaching sessions.

Believe in this truth!!

Even though self love is not one of my strengths I am learning to be okay with this. Even though I don't know how to love myself, that I've always had trouble with this, that I feel incapable of directing love to myself I am learning that love comes in many formsEven though I feel unlovable, I know that I am loved. Even though I feel like there is something wrong with me, and I feel like I am destined to be this way for the rest of my life, I am okay with who I am. Even though I was never taught to love myself, I am open to new possibilities because I am ready to learn. Even though I am not sure how to start directing love towards myself, part of me is looking forward to walking down a different path. Even though I am my toughest critic, part of me appreciates the honestly I am sharing and the courage in my soul will carry me through this. Even though today has been hard, I feel determined to stand stronger, make small shifts, and I will learn how to love myself more each day.

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